“Ahem…”
Grandma May cleared her throat. When Duncan looked at her, she reminded him, “Duncan, Sonny wasn’t scared by the robbers but by you. Look at how he’s struggling to get off you to the ground.”
“Dunc, let go of me,” Sonny asked again.
The little guy’s small face was tense. It was obvious that he was mad.
Dunc was too strong, hence Sonny could not break free from his embrace.
Duncan immediately put Sonny down and squatted as well. He grabbed Sonny’s shoulders instead and said gently, “Sonny, as long as you’re okay, as long as you’re okay.”
Sonny looked at Duncan with his big twinkling eyes.
Dunc treated him quite well.
Sonny could sense Dunc’s sincerity toward him.
Dunc was not teasing him and really liked him.
Sonny lifted his small hand and placed it on the scar on Duncan’s face. He lightly touched it and then retracted his hand as if he was afraid. Seeing as Duncan was not in pain, Sonny reached out his little hand again to touch the scar.
“Dunc, does it hurt?”
“Not anymore.”
It was extremely painful when Duncan was injured back then, and his handsome face was stained by blood. His mom was so frightened that her legs went weak, thinking that he would die from severe injury.
Duncan’s sick grandmother almost died learning about his injury. Although she later knew that he was only marred by a scar, she was so terrified that her condition became worse. She died not long after.
When that happened, Duncan finally regretted it and turned over a new leaf. He quit the so- called underworld and started afresh.
He kept the scar as it was both a testimony to his prime in youth and a reminder that his rebellion led to his grandmother’s premature death from illness.
The doctor had said that his grandmother could have lived for three to five more years with good conditioning and care…
Before she passed away, she was still worried about her little grandson the most.
She touched the scar on Duncan’s face and wanted to say something but could not. In the end, her old hand slipped from his face. At that moment, Duncan lost the grandmother who loved him most.
For many years, he did not go for cosmetic surgery regardless of his family’s advice.
“But it’s so scary.”
Sonny commented softly, “It looks like a bug that bites.”
Duncan fell silent.
He liked Sonny very much. He did not know why, but he just liked the little one. Perhaps this was fate, but Sonny always refused to be carried by him.
Everyone said that Sonny was afraid of the scar on his face.
At this moment, Duncan listened to Sonny’s soft words. When Sonny gently touched his scar with his little hand, there was fear but also… A look of distress in his eyes.
The little one felt pain for Duncan.
Duncan pulled Sonny into his arms and let him go after a quick embrace. He then stood up and naturally said to the old lady, “Grandma May, make more food. I’m eating here.”
“You came a little earlier, or you’ll only be eating instant noodles once the food is ready.”
Grandma May laughed and said, “There aren’t instant noodles here. Zack and Seren don’t eat them, so there aren’t any at home.”
Duncan responded with a smile, “I’m not a picky eater. I’ll eat whatever there is to eat.”
He greeted Elisa when he saw her.
Elisa glanced back and forth between Duncan and Sonny and teased the former, “If Sonny were a girl and of legal age, I’d suspect you have intentions for him. You looked so dearly at him just now that your eyes almost became heart shapes.”
Jasmine remarked, “Mr. Lewis isn’t treating Sonny as a girl; he’s treating him as his baby. What he’s displaying is fatherly love.”
Liberty was speechless.
If she claimed that Duncan’s affection for Sonny was fatherly love, would that not make her and Duncan a couple given that she was Sonny’s mother?
Duncan sat on the sofa by himself and asked about what happened.
“It feels like their goal was to abduct Sonny.”
Duncan’s intuition was the same as Serena’s and Zack’s.
“Liberty, do you remember what they look like? If you can draw composites of them, I can have someone find them.”
Duncan was no longer a part of the underworld, but his legend remained. If he needed help from those people, they would do anything they could to help him as they used to in the past.
“They were wearing black masks and sunglasses, so I couldn’t see their appearances. I only know that they’re tall and strong. They’re not like ordinary thugs and are more like bodyguards.”
Zack always had a bunch of bodyguards with him, so Liberty was used to seeing them. They were all tall and powerful, so she felt that the thugs were closer to bodyguards.
Duncan’s eyes darkened. He did not comment on what Liberty said and only asked for more details. Soon, it was time to eat.
At this time, his mother called again.
Duncan looked at the caller ID but did not answer. He calmly ate with everyone else.
“Duncan, who’s calling you? You’re not answering the call,” Grandma May inquired.
Duncan calmly filled his plate with food. He praised Serena’s cooking while he ate, and he said enviously, “Zack is blessed with delicious food.”
“You’re jealous, aren’t you? Find a wife who cooks well too, and you’ll also be blessed with delicious food,” Grandma May teased him. “Pick up the phone. The person has called several times. You might not want to answer it, but your ringtone is too loud and piercing. I’m too old to listen to such noise.”
“Grandma May, I’ll answer it after I’m done eating.”
Duncan remained calm and continued to eat. He occasionally filled Sonny’s plate using the serving utensils and said, “Sonny, you were frightened today. Eat more to get over the shock.”
“I wasn’t frightened,” Sonny retorted seriously.
“Right, right, right, you weren’t frightened. You’re a little man, Sonny. You’re brave and unafraid of anything.”
Duncan’s praise made Sonny raise his head and stick out his chest. His uncle also said that he was a little man.
“Liberty, I think you should send Sonny to learn some form of self–defense.”
“Zack suggested that too. He said he’d hire a trainer for Sonny so he could learn some punches and kicks.”
The person who answered was Liberty.
Duncan hummed.
Zack beat him to it.
After all, Zack was Sonny’s uncle.
After the meal, when Duncan’s phone rang again, he answered it.
“Mom.”
“Mr. Lewis, you’re not taking my call on purpose, right? I’ve called a dozen times, and yet you’re only answering now!”
Mrs. Lewis was infuriated.
Instead of calling his son’s name, she simply called him by his last name.
“Mom, I put my phone on silent during the meeting this afternoon and forgot to unmute it, so I didn’t hear it ring. I took my phone out just now and saw that you called. I was confused why my phone didn’t ring when there were incoming calls.”
Everyone present looked at Duncan.
Who would have thought that he was an expert in telling lies?
He did not blush nor stutter at all.
It was as if what he said was the truth.
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